which industry of farming do you advise to get in?

[roscoe erf]

if you like hard work for little reward and a good clip board beating then any area of farming should be right up your street but livestock farming has probably the higher masochist tendencies

 

[Tim G]

The trouble with farming is you can only sell food items once to one person.

Once it's consumed its gone.

Where as a TV show or record you can it to multiple people.

But most people eat three times a day. Shouldn't want to watch the same TV show three times every day.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

You can still only sell that product once.

See post 34

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Dad did everything in the early 60ts . Pigs Poultry Potatoes Broilers among other things. He moved to Wales and left it all behind bar dairy, said the rest was a waste of time

By comparison it was, then. Dad often says his biggest mistake on starting framing in 1966 was to not start a dairy herd.

Now many folk struggle to make a profit from it.

 

[Sid]

But most people eat three times a day. Shouldn't want to watch the same TV show three times every day.

No but you can sell it across the globe with no transportation cost, and minimal fuel usage.

See post 34

Access rights you can sell over and over but carbon credits are a one trick pony.
They also can only be sold once.

 

[Farmer Roy]

You can still only sell that product once.

maybe, but so are all manufactured goods.
It’s a high turnover with constant demand, that’s the bonus

 

[Derrick Hughes]

You can still only sell that product once.

People eat all day long

How often do you buy a car
In one respect your sitting pretty.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Come up with an ecologically nurturing system for whatever you do. I foresee a time soon when the sale of food products from the farm will be under 25% of receipts:

Carbon offsets
PES payments from water companies
Biodiversity offsets
Access payments
Research grants
ELMs
NFM flood reduction payments

Income or profit?
What costs are involved producing these new income streams?

 

[Ffermer Bach]

I think growing Cannabis in a rented house, with jump leads to by pass the electric meter is probably the most lucrative crop

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Come up with an ecologically nurturing system for whatever you do. I foresee a time soon when the sale of food products from the farm will be under 25% of receipts:

Carbon offsets
PES payments from water companies
Biodiversity offsets
Access payments
Research grants
ELMs
NFM flood reduction payments

That's why we sell a grazing service

Sales of product will be lucky to reach 3% of turnover for the FY ahead, and Grant certainly aint coming here

 

[Tractorstant]

`This!

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Income or profit?
What costs are involved producing these new income streams?

That depends how you approach it and how their markets develop really. If the way you farm inherently improves water infiltration and retention then there's no cost in creating the benefit being paid for in flood reduction or water resource replenishment.

If your farming system doesn't use agrochemicals then why not take money from the local water company to not use agrochemicals?

 

[Norfolk Olly]

I don’t remember the soya being hugely profitable!

None this year, but got some Lucerne

 

[Steevo]

None this year, but got some Lucerne

You'll be doing rye next year as well then.

 

[Tarw Coch]

`This!

Great film, I’d have preferred it if you’d put up a clip from a few minutes earlier in the film featuring Sienna Miller

 

[ollie989898]

By comparison it was, then. Dad often says his biggest mistake on starting framing in 1966 was to not start a dairy herd.

Now many folk struggle to make a profit from it.

I know plenty of folk who do make a living and profit from it.

 

[Unknown12]

Something you like doing and sell direct

What do you mean by sell direct

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

What do you mean by sell direct

Sell what you produce direct to the consumer. Check out the wholesale egg price compared to the supermarkets as an example.

Other people are making a living from under 20 cows because they are selling milk through a vending machine. Look up the difference between wholesale milk and the supermarkets (which they say they don't make any money from)

It all depends what you feel like doing and what you want to invest.

Where are you in the country?

 

[Highland Mule]

which industry of farming do people recon is the best paying e.g arable, dairy, pigs, sheep ext.

If “best paying” is your selection criteria then I’m not sure farming is your best career choice. Lots of factors matter - how much you are able to invest to start the business, what level of lifestyle are you prepared to accept and where your talents lie, for a start.

 

[Chae1]

Great film, I’d have preferred it if you’d put up a clip from a few minutes earlier in the film featuring Sienna Miller

Daniel Craig's Audi is a highlight for me.

And the scene where Sienna Miller was dancing in the nightclub where she first meets Daniel Craig.

The late nineties was a great era in my opinion. Think if I had a time machine I would go back to Brentwood in the late 90s early noughties. Loved working/living down there.